13 Responses to Language quiz

If you want to hear true Québécois at its best go to: http://www.tetesaclaques.tv. These short clips and the website have become something of a cultural phenomenon here in Québec and is hugely popular. It really gives you a flavor of the phonology, the lexicon and the expressions here. :) Enjoy!

It would be interesting to do this with Arabic dialects/variants. I tried a simple online survey with a bunch of songs sometime ago and found most people thought most Eastern dialects sounded identical.

Before having read the previous posts, I had incorrectly guessed that number two came from Southern France. I noticed the announcer in the sample highlighted a final e at the end of several of his words: souhaite, podium, coupe, and réussite. My friend from Bergerac emphasizes these final e’s also. I’m glad to hear that this is done in Belgium. Vivent les e muets qui ont trouvé leur voix.

This is rather interesting because to me the one from Belgium sound the most right to me. I believe I can attribute this to the fact that my first French teacher was from Belgium but the one from France also seems correct.